We’re off and running into 2016, and rather than ask how your resolutions are going, or whether you’re on track to reach your goals, I’d like to pose a different kind of question in this post…What are you curious about in 2016? I love the word curious. There’s an authenticity and wonder about it. It […]
The generations of professionals who work their entire career in a single organization are becoming extinct. These days it’s not that people have changed their professional values but that organizations don’t honor the long-term employee as they did in years past. The grow talent from within philosophy can still be found in some of the […]
It’s no mystery that happy employees are more productive but unhappy employees can become extremely debilitated and unwilling to follow leaders. This lack of influence leads to a breakdown in organizational morale, positional power and stability within organizations. Crystal Miller wrote a great piece on Blogging4Jobs about how asserting influence is not a passive thing […]
Even though numerous research studies have shown that having more women seated at the decision-making tables improves bottom line profitability for an organization, women sit at the helm of only 12 Fortune 500 companies. Margie Warrell wrote a compelling piece in Forbes about what women can do more of to make their way to the […]
I had the great pleasure of attending a webinar by Carolyn Wiethoff, professor at the IU Kelley School of Business and an expert on organizational behavior. She gave some startling statistics about how women still earn between 60-80% of what men are earning in the same positions across different career fields. Her research attributes this […]
